Opel motor bike
The Opel motorbike (1919 to 1924) was developed in 1913, but production only started in Rüsselsheim after the First World War . Opel tried to regain a foothold in the motorcycle sector with the four-stroke engine with SV valve control screwed on the left rear wheel after the first motorcycle production was discontinued in 1907. The displacement was 140 cm³ (bore / stroke: 57 × 55 mm) and the power was given as 1.1 HP . In 1924 the 40 km / h fast motorbike with a pushed short swing arm , of which there was also a women's version with a low step through, was replaced by a light motorcycle.
literature
- Jürgen Nöll: Opel Motorcycles. Podszun, Brilon 2012, ISBN 978-3-86133-637-2 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Erwin Tragatsch : Famous Motorcycles. 1st edition, Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-613-02038-6 , p. 301.
- ↑ Heimatverein Rüsselsheim ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on December 17, 2016)
- ↑ Opel Motorräder on spiegel.de (accessed December 17, 2016)
